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"Moreover, you scorned our people, and compared the Albanese to sheep, and according to your custom think of us with insults. Nor have you shown yourself to have any knowledge of my race. Our elders were Epirotes, where this Pirro came from, whose force could scarcely support the Romans. This Pirro, who Taranto and many other places of Italy held back with armies. I do not have to speak for the Epiroti. They are very much stronger men than your Tarantini, a species of wet men who are born only to fish. If you want to say that Albania is part of Macedonia I would concede that a lot more of our ancestors were nobles who went as far as India under Alexander the Great and defeated all those peoples with incredible difficulty. From those men come these who you called sheep. But the nature of things is not changed. Why do your men run away in the faces of sheep?"

Letter from Skanderbeg to the Prince of Taranto ▬ Skanderbeg, October 31 1460

Retimo was in greater need of help. The refugees in this town exceeded the normal population in number. In addition to the "Greek" refugees from Asia Minor, all of whom spoke Turkish and whose forefathers had never set foot on Greek soil. Housing was out of the question. It was a case of shelter from the wind and rain. All the old mosques, churches, school buildings and rookeries of every description were utilized. The "Turkish" population helped the Greek-speaking "Turks" from the interior of Crete; the Christian population helped the Turkish-speaking "Greeks" from Anatolia.

Migrantët Karamanli në pritje për t'u deportuar në Greqi në qytetin e Nigde;Karamanli migrants waiting to be deported to the Greece in the city of Nigde;

"Homer, as Thucydides remarks, has not made use of the term "barbarians", because the name "Hellenes" did not yet exist as a national and distinctive title. "The Pelasgi were called by Athenians (that is after their mixture) Πελασγοί (Pelasgians), storks, on account of their frequent removals from place to place."- Strabo, IX.p.273.
"The natives of Egypt gave the appellation of BARBAR to the rude and uncivilized tribes in their vicinity."-Herod. II. 158. The word "barbarian" was at first employed only to designate an un-Grecian harshness of language."-Strabo, 14.662"

" For eastern Christians since the time of the Gospels, the word Ellin
[Hellene] had meant a non-Christian, that is, a pagan (*).
Nevertheless, some writers during the late Byzantine period and afterwards used the term ‘Hellenes’ to refer to Orthodox Christians. Some of these were
even senior churchmen, but they were using the term in an antiquarian
way, in texts written in Ancient Greek, as the counterpart of ‘Latins’
(Roman Catholics)"(*) In Mark 7.26 it is used to mean ‘gentile’, i.e. non-Jew
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"Language and National Identity in Greece, 1766-1976" p.49,
Peter Mackridge

Qe te kuptojme etnicitetin "grek"!
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"Greek nationalism has been particularly intense because of the real
or perceived rival claims of the Greeks’ neighbours. From the outset,
however, it did not stress the importance of common ancestry: you
could become a Hellene even if you were an Aromanian or an Arvanite,
provided you were a Christian and espoused the Hellenic cause.45 Nor
would it be accurate to claim that the modern Greek nation ‘formed
in the ﬁrst place around a dominant ethnie, which annexed or attracted
other ethnies or ethnic fragments into the state to which it gave a name
and cultural character’.46 In fact, ethnicity was hardly an issue in early
Greeknationalism,whichiswhyIavoidusingtheterminthisbook.This
is because the Hellenic nation developed out of a religious community,
the Orthodox Christian millet of the Ottoman empire, which gradually
metamorphosed from a pan-Orthodox Balkan and Anatolian community
into a number of distinct national communities: Greeks, Bulgarians,
Romanians, and Albanians. It was precisely because it was originally
a multi-ethnic movement that grew out of the Greek Enlightenment,
which was itself a pan-Balkan enterprise, that early Greek nationalism
did not stress vernacular language and culture; vernacular lexicographers
and ethnographers came at a later stage. Later, state institutions, particularly
education, spread the national idea further and deeper, both within
the conﬁnes of the state and beyond its boundaries, until ﬁnally, as a
result of the victorious Balkan wars of 1912–13 and the disastrous Asia
Minor campaign of 1919–22, it conﬁned itself to the borders of the now
much enlarged state, which meant incorporating a large number of Slav,
Albanian, and Aromanian speakers."
"Language and National Identity in Greece, 1766-1976" p.p 14-15
Peter Mackridge

The preceding observations are meant to justify the writer's opinion, that whatever the Greeks may have been formerly, and however lamentable the causes of their actual degeneracy, they are at present totally unfit for being raised into an independent nation, and would infallibly constitute themselves a Russian colony, the instant that the success of their struggles would compel the Porte to acknowledge them free from Ottoman authority.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing

But my own belief about it is this. If the Phoenicians did in fact carry away the sacred women and sell one in Libya and one in Hellas, then, in my opinion, [background=yellow]the place[/background] where this woman was sold in [background=yellow]what is now Hellas, but was formerly called Pelasgia[/background], [u]was Thesprotia[/u];

These customs, then, and others besides, which I shall indicate, were taken by the Greeks from the Egyptians. It was not so with the ithyphallic images of Hermes; the production of these came from the Pelasgians, from whom the Athenians were the first Greeks to take it, and then handed it on to others. [2] For the Athenians were then already counted as Greeks when the Pelasgians came to live in the land with them and thereby began to be considered as Greeks. Whoever has been initiated into the rites of the Cabeiri, which the Samothracians learned from the Pelasgians and now practice, understands what my meaning is. [3] Samothrace was formerly inhabited by those Pelasgians who came to live among the Athenians, and it is from them that the Samothracians take their rites. [4] The Athenians, then, were the first Greeks to make ithyphallic images of Hermes, and they did this because the Pelasgians taught them. The Pelasgians told a certain sacred tale about this, which is set forth in the Samothracian mysteries.